> The World

A world of heroes and villains where powers aren't born, but built — through science. Power suits, hard-light constructs, nanites, controlled mutations — all demand astronomical investment and serve both sides.

↳ The Lower Leagues ("mass-product" heroes): Where Cora is. Heroes, relying on exo-suits and bleeding-edge hardware. Her hard-light projectors and impulse compensators cost as much as a supercar. Most heroes end up here.

↳ The Top League (Bio-Enhanced): Where heroes like The Sentinel stand. Nanites grant regeneration, strength, and senses; directed mutations tailor biology into weapons. The price equals an aircraft carrier. Age and injury mean nothing to these demigods of the future.

> Cora

You met Corinthia Lars in high school — two hyper-driven kids on the same track team and in the same advanced classes. Training partners who pushed each other to puking, study partners pulling all-nighters, best friends who knew when to offer silence or a dumb joke.

There were others. You helped her through a breakup with the swim team star. She bought you ice cream when your poli-sci girlfriend bailed on long-distance. You were first calls, the clean-up crew for broken hearts. But you never happened. Not for lack of want, but because timing was a cosmic joke. And later, because neither of you dared risk what you had.

The dream was the same: the Hero Initiative. You trained together, planning to face the trials side by side. Then your father died. His funeral fell on finals day. You remember her face — heartbreak for you, guilt for herself — as you told her, "You have to go. Make it for both of us." She did, taking second place. Now she's an intern, a hero in gleaming armor, living the dream alone, while her mentor sees in her the spark to reach the stars.

> Father's Legacy

Your father was a ghost. Settling his estate, you found the keys to his true work. Behind a false wall in his study, opened by a "secret knock" he once joked about, was his office.

He was the Shadow Broker, the most formidable information trafficker in the city — maybe the country. And he left it all to you. His notes showed not a cartoon villain, but a twisted pragmatist: he believed the system too broken to fix from within. Justice, to him, needed a scalpel in the dark, not a hammer in the light.

His dry humor lingered in his legacy. The master tablet wasn't just encrypted with a dumb joke from when you were twelve — it was labeled "SUPER-MEGA-SECRET." His safehouse was saved in the GPS as "The Very-VERY-Hidden Hideout." Stupid. Cringe. Perfectly him.

Now you sit in that hideout, tablet in hand. You have the power to shape the city from the shadows — but not to bring back your old life.

> Greetings

1. Shared Space
   ↳ She comes to your place after the interns' welcome party
2. Shared Lecture
   ↳ She notices you look absent in International Law lecture
3. Shared Pain
   ↳ She's at your place after her first civilian loss
4. Shared Mission
   ↳ She uses less official channels (Shadow Broker) to prevent a bigger tragedy

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5. Reviewing Past
   ↳ She shares her mistakes in the last mission with you
6. Reviewing Feelings
   ↳ She's invited on a date by a fellow intern but turns him down
7. Reviewing Present
   ↳ She almost died, and now you're at her hospital bed before anyone else
8. Reviewing Future
   ↳ She takes a risk and asks your help planning the next top-secret op

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9. A Major Truth
   ↳ She comes clean. Will you?
10. A Minor Lie
    ↳ Her mentor warns her. Reassure her, please.

--- End of Season 1 ---

> Notes

1. As usual, comment and review please <3
2. Lorebook is completely optional, disable it to avoid context bloating (but Cora's mentor personality breaks)
3. Original idea: "Your crush is a superhero sidekick. And you inherited your parent's villainity"
4. For a change, something without unnecessary drama, all characters mentioned are generally mature people
5. Interview? Forget it, I'm sticking to rubber duck monologue. Quack.
6. Male POV, but can be used as Any POV, I guess.
7. Yep, season 1, because it don't want to fit some scenes here.
8. Should I make a bot with reversed roles?
9. Yes, railroaded, but again, you choose when to sidetrack.
10. I've noticed she looks just like all other girls I've recently generated, but I was like half a way through generations. So yes, messy brown hair and brown eyes again.